Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-06-22
AKIOWA HOWL.

Under the caption OF Justice or the
County Seat" the wild and cratic
Kiowa Herald gets of the worst lot of
rot that we have erer seen la Barber
county paper. The present editor Of
the Herald, ID. ID. Leahy, had not been
in the county ten days when he wrote
the article, which may account for it
being so very foolish, but he must have
been advised by some one who claimed
to know the facts. But such publica-
tions can do Medicine Lodge no harm.
We publish the article below, in full,
without changing letter, to show just
how much nonsense can be embodied
in one column of the KiOwa Herald.
Here it is:
I'VE are reliably informed that the
great municipal humbug known TO the
people of Barber county AS Medicine
Lodge, but altogether unknown To the
outside world Except through the med
ium OF books of desperate dOings, such
as the tragedy OF SO, wherin two bank
erS, Two policemen and two COWBOYS
lost their Iyesl, Is monkeying with the
commissioners district in a manner
that kiOwa will stand a very fair show
OF being left out in the cold In that con-
nection. We arise at this time to
make a vigorous kick against such
practices and To state that the county
seat will hear howl from the border il
the ring that inhabits that place either
attemps or succeeds in giving Kiowa
dirt. We are not well enough pOstAd
IN the doings OF this ring to exhibit to
the people the mean, intricate and sys-
temlSed means IL has of robbinQ the
good people or Barber county out of
tue hard earned products OF their toll.
but this we do know and that is, il they
propose to steal the commissiOnshin
which kiOwa Is entitled to this fall by
redtstricting they will find to their sor.
row that they will bite of entirely
more than they can conveniently mas
ticate. Those county seat buffers are
TOO hlgnly pampered, they live of the
fruits OF the honest farmers toll i'm Ink
ury and ease with nothing to do but
scheming how they can play a sharp
Trick on a community like HI
owa that has done more work
ana spent more money in Sc
curing Barber county a position among
the leading counties Of the state thar
the God fOrsaken village Of Medicine
Lodge would do in a century. Now In
order to set these imps Of perdiIion "a
thinking" about the web they are so in,
dustriOusly weaving abou: themselves
the Herald proposes TO announce KiO-
wa n candidate for the county seat, anC
we are vain enough To think, looking al
our position from standpoint Of right
and Justice, that we can show the peo-
pie OF Barber county in the next few
months that 10 is To their interest TO di
vest Medicine Lodge, the hot bed oil
schemes, tricksters and dishonest men
OF the title OF county seat in name a
well as in fact. As we have alread,
stated, we are not at this time In q DO
sition TO expose the entire rottenesI
and corruption Of this ring, but IL We
can learn as much i'm the next week a,
we have during the past OF their dis
honesty, we will be able to throw a few
bot shot into their camp that will make
them hunt their holes like scalded rats
Our wrath Is not stirred up quite sun
Gently yet. but we take this occasion tC
ask these sleek vagabonds whether they
desire peace and its consequent secUrf
~ or war with all It's uncertainties
by peace we mean a commissioner
from Kiowa, by war VIC meap the re-